Bent Spur
Bent Spur is a 4.99 MW solar farm in North West England, operated by Greencoat Capital. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- PV
- North West
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 4.99 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Solar Β· PV
- Operator
- Greencoat Capital
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- BL4 8SJ
- Coordinates
- 53.5331, -2.3760
Location
Map position from the published coordinates. For small sites this can be an approximate point rather than the exact boundary. Map Β© OpenStreetMap contributors.
How Bent Spur compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 10% of the maximum possible output), a 4.99 MW station would generate roughly 4.4 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 1,620 homes at 2,700 kWh each. This is an illustrative estimate, not the station's metered output: real generation varies with weather, availability and grid constraints.
Solar photovoltaic (PV) sites generate electricity from sunlight. Panels produce direct current, which inverters convert to alternating current for the grid. Output follows daylight and the seasons, so annual generation is a small fraction of the maximum possible.
All UK solar farms Solar farms in North West All run by Greencoat CapitalNearby generating sites
- Carrington Power Β· 884 MW CCGT gas power station11.2 km
- Scout Moor Wind Farm Ltd Β· 65 MW onshore wind farm16.7 km
- Blackburn Β· 60 MW CCGT gas power station23.1 km
- Hameldon Hill Extension Β· 6 MW onshore wind farm26.9 km
- Fiddler's Ferry Power Station Β· 1,995 MW coal-fired power station27.4 km
- Coal Clough RP Β· 16 MW onshore wind farm28.3 km
- Pilkington Β· 2.3 MW solar farm29.3 km
- Hameldon Hill Β· 6 MW onshore wind farm31.7 km
Also operated by Greencoat Capital
Greencoat Capital operates 195 sites in the register. Largest first:
Planning history
From the government's Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), matched to this site by location, capacity and name.
- Planning status
- Operational
- Site name in planning record
- Bent Spur Solar Farm
- Developer / operator
- Active Renewables
- Planning authority
- Bolton
- Planning reference
- 94654/15
- Application submitted
- 24 August 2015
- Permission granted
- 20 November 2015
- Construction started
- 20 February 2016
- Began operating
- 31 March 2016
- Capacity in planning record
- 5 MW
- Address
- Bent Spur Farm, Bent Spur Road, Kearsley, Bolton, Greater Manchester, BL4 8SJ
- REPD reference
- 5723
Source
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), table 5.11: power stations in the United Kingdom β operational at end of May 2025.
Capacity is installed capacity as published, not current output. Status reflects the source date, not live operation.
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Last checked by Octary: 15 July 2026
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